Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: craig@sco.COM Subject: MTV Interview - AA Gun Message-ID: <9106111344.aa12541@scol.sco.COM> Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Date: 11 Jun 91 13:43:37 GMT Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Lines: 18 > From: ed@wente.llnl.GOV (Ed Suranyi) > [From Ron Hill's posting of the unedited MTV interview] > >[K:] So it was really designing something that was a > >cross between an Akatan [???] gun and a pipe organ. > > She used the British term for an anti-aircraft gun, whatever it is. Archie in WW1, Ack-Ack in WW2 (Ack being A in the RAF radio alphabet used at the time, c.f. Ack-Emma for Aircraft Mechanic - my uncle was one!) --- O__ .... Craig R.P. Heath Europe: /| bang Looking for an angel with ...!ukc!pyrltd!scol!craig / \ a broken wing... Internet: craig@sco.COM